The Opelousas courier., 1887-02-12
General Notes.

uG SO0uGI ktHIbuls dWdhG lo the idci
that the best they can do by their sons
is to canse them to learn trade, the
better for the country. Boston Budget.
Queen Victoria has received fortune
Of $l,OO0,D00 through the death of
William Heatheote Of HiAingdon, he
dying intestate and without any known
relatives.
Four years ago Gen. Fare, then War
Minister, abolished the drum in the
French army. Belgium and Italy fol-
lowed suit France has now readopted
the use of the drum, and again Italy
and Belgium have followed the French
example,
Macon Telegraph: If the South We're
getting 100000, 900 in pension sAevery
year you would hear of Southern capi-
| tai flowing North, and some Northern
journal would be mean enough to rise
up and say that the said capital did not,
after all, represent the difference in the
financial success of the two sections, nor
of their ability.
The time required for q telegraphic
signal to pass around the earth is the
subject of an inquiry to the Scientific
American. 1t states that on a good land
telegraph line of the length equal to the
circumference of the earth, about one
| second would be needed. Ocean cables
would considerably increase this, even
| to several seconds.
There is said to be constant increase
| in the number of welI-to-do people in
! this country who think it vulgar for a
girl 10 know any ything about housekeep-
ing. It is to be hoped this is not true.
Poor housekeeping is one of the marks
of vulgarity, and a woman who does
| not know how to keep house is liable
to be thought ynlgas by any one who
| crosses her threshold. st. Louis Repub-
| lican.
The New York World says: The
| passage by Democratic House, with
out objection, and with no provision
for Confederate soldiers, of pension
bill appropriating over $76, 900, 900 for
the current year-or nearly as much as
/ the entire expenses of the Government
before the war-ought to make some of
the Republican ranters of the last Presi-
Dental campaign ashamed of them
selves. But it won't. Nothing will >
Donaldsonville Chief: On Thursday
Town Treasurer Solozano offered al
public sale, in front of the Court t-house,
the lease of the Donaldsonville Market
house and market revenues for the year
1887, and the privilege was adjudicat-
ed to Mr.. Dominique Variant, the high
est bidder, for the sum of $l430. At the
] last preceding sale, made on the Goth oi
December, 1885, the Tease was adiudi-
eated to Mr.. Frank MARTINEZ for $500
The town will therefore realize $13I
more from the market revenues this
year than last.
With a Democratic President trying
to give the Office of recorder to a color
ed man and Republican Senate tryins
to keep him from doing so, the impress
sion is likely to be made on the negro
mind that, after all, the Democrats an(
not the Republicans are the friends o
the colored race Should this condition
of mind come to he prevalent, the sole
South will be soldier than ever, ami
the last argument of the bloody sliir
group of Republicans will be crushet
ont of all semblance to an argument. :
! Chicago News, Ind.
+ Baton Rouge Truth: The Farmers
i Alliance, an association that is yer,
strong iu Texas, is being organized il
number of the parishes of North Lou
isiana. The association is wholly il
] the interest of the farmers, and it's oh
ject is to get them out of debt aud keel
them out; to bring about economy, in
dustry and honesty, and to establish it
members upon such financial basis a
will enable them to buy everything fo
cash. Tie Alliance should co-operat
with the State Association soon to b
organized, and help to extend the SCUM
principles on which it is organized al
over Louisiana.
The following advice from the Phila
ielphia Record is timely. We com
mend it especially to our deliuquen
subscribers: This is the time of yea
to pay up. Everyone who has th
means should settle his small debts
III You pay your butcher what you ow
him, your butcher can pay the baker
! and the baker the tailor, and the tailo
his wife's millinery bill. Thus on
good deed would roll along and gathe
goodness as it proceeded, inducing gen
eral liquidation. It is d bad beginnin
! of the new year to enter upon it wit
i the drawback of swarm of little debts
like q swarm of Jersey mosquitoes, TAX
ing all the comfort out of living"